Re: Tegmark's TOE & Cantor's Absolute Infinity

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
I'm not so sure that I do perceive positive integers directly. But regardless of that, I remain convinced that all properties of them that I can perceive can be written as a piece of ASCII text. The description doesn't need to be axiomatic, mind you. As I have mentioned, the Schmidhuber ensemble

Re: Tegmark's TOE & Cantor's Absolute Infinity

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Hal Finney wrote: > > I have gone back to Tegmark's paper, which is discussed informally > at http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/toe.html and linked from > http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9704009. > > I see that Russell is right, and that Tegmark does identify mathematical > structures with formal systems

Re: Modal Realism vs. MWI

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Tim May wrote: > > > However, I take your point that full Lewis-Stalnaker-D. Lewis modal > realism is "more disjoint" than the "less disjoint" (initial > interference of branching worlds) MWI. In terms of topology, one might > say full modal realism is the discrete (perhaps Zariski) topology,

Re: Romeo and Juliet and QS

2002-10-07 Thread George Levy
Jesse Mazer wrote: > George Levy wrote: > >> Without our quantum laws, for example, if we lived in a mechanistic >> universe, electrons, unfettered by their >quantum levels would fall >> into their nucleii resulting in the almost immediate annihilation of >> all matter in >the universe and a

Re: Calibration Request

2002-10-07 Thread Russell Standish
Don't feel too bad about this. I doubt that anyone has a clear picture of what the mind is, so I doubt that reading avogadro's number of articles on the subject would help anyway. What I was referring to was for projections from a range of possibilities onto an actual observed outcome to be a nec

Calibration Request

2002-10-07 Thread Colin Hales
In .. RE: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here? Russell Standish wrote: > > It could just mean that communication between the "universes" is > impossible. Which is not surprising, really, as the division between > "universes" in the MWI is what allows conscious t

Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here?

2002-10-07 Thread Saibal Mitra
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Bruno Marchal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Verzonden: vrijdag 4 oktober 2002 18:13 Onderwerp: Re: Many Fermis Interpretation Paradox -- So why aren't they here? > At 9:36 -0700 1/10/2002, Tim May wrote: > >